http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/CRW.jpgBy Lee Skallerup Bessette. Hey, what’s up? How has everyone been? Good? Busy first few weeks of the semester?
You might be living somewhere where the “Polar Vortex” has struck (or as all my friends and family still living in Canada call it: WINTER) and you’ve been scrambling because your kids’ schools have been closed while your university has stayed open. Or your semester is already is disarray because your university has closed and so are scrambling to revamp your syllabus on the fly with barely two weeks (if that), hoping that your students don’t just disappear because of all this time off. Read more...